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If Twitter Won’t Handle Its Massive Harassment Problem, These Women Will(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
The Powder Toy, more or less the state of the art in falling sand games now, has a raft of Life rulesets. I found it quite interesting to pit them together; they have no particular rules for directly interacting with one another, but the wa
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by jarcane 12y ago
That is quite actually one of the creepiest things I've read in a while. I've always been fundamentally uncomfortable with a certain wing of Valley thought, but man, even I didn't think it went that far and in such lofty hall
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by jarcane 12y ago
Practical Common Lisp is the best Common Lisp learning book there is. Land of Lisp is funny and all, but it doesn't make any attempt to really help you get set up with practical tools for interacting, relies on CLISP which is buggy and
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by jarcane 12y ago
For me, I used foobar because it was the last one that didn't try to be 'smart' about shuffle play.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Fair enough. I always left it on default, and it's not the prettiest thing then, or wasn't at the time.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Linux/BSD support is literally the reason I just bought an Nvidia card to replace my old Radeon.
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by jarcane 12y ago
foobar2000 is a more recent work from one of the original devs, and quite good if you're looking for minimalism and function over style. And of course, if you're on Unixen, XMMS is pretty much a direct clone of the old Winamp (and
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by jarcane 12y ago
Speaking as someone who grew up 'gifted': yes. And I still struggle with it. Growing up 'smart' made me stupid. I had tests and things, I was marked for inclusion in the TAG program. I got poor grades not because I wasn&
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by jarcane 12y ago
Because for an established author, an advance can be really big, and also because not every author actually wants to deal with the work described above. I know I sure as hell didn't, but in my case and my market at the time there jus
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by jarcane 12y ago
Lightning Source is who provide the actual printing services for my published books (though contracted through a third-party marketplace). Not bad quality, and meeting their standards was a lot more painless than Lulu used to be.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Awesome. Updated as soon as I heard. Like the speed improvement in DrRacket boot-times, I still find I do most of my Racketeering there.
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by jarcane 12y ago
The issues page is here: https://github.com/zodiac/isicp/issues I just found the link today while looking for browser Scheme interpreters; thought I'd share it.
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by jarcane 12y ago
As indicated at the bottom of the index page, it's a CC BY-SA license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Interactive Version(xuanji.appspot.com)
213 points by jarcane 12y ago|14 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
FreeBSD is the OS I switched to after one Linux distro after another refused to run properly on my hardware. I don't boot it often, but if I want to do some good old fashioned Unix hacking, it's my first choice from here on out.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Ahh yes, the classic Bitcoiner approach of attempting to drive adoption simply by giving the damn things to people whether they want them or not.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This. I still remember the one and only time I tried doing a scripted app in HyperCard. I spent an entire day constantly fighting with the contextual definitions of keywords, literally playing a Clintonesque game of quibbling over the defin
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Boycott Linux (inspired by Fork Debian)(boycottlinux.org)
22 points by jarcane 12y ago|4 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
Unicode is fun to play with. I found a trick the other day in Racket to squeeze text using ligature codes into fewer visible characters; really handy for tweet-sized code golfing.
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by jarcane 12y ago
That is an element I hadn't considered, and yeah, that's pretty scary indeed, especially in light of the recent email hacking at CurrentC. I was lucky when I lived in the states to have a credit union that largely treated debit as
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by jarcane 12y ago
I have some sympathies for the retailers in this. My understanding based on previous reading is that the CurrentC system works by debit, rather than credit, meaning they avoid credit card fees. Most bigger shops like Rite-Aid already use de
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Classic technology in Lego miniature(chrismcveigh.com)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
Maybe users will stop leaving when Twitter starts putting some actual effort into policing it and dealing with the abuse and harassment that is rampant on the network, instead of actually making it even harder for people to do anything ab
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by jarcane 12y ago
This. I think I've only ever once had a serious malware infestation on my main machine, and it was directly from a pop-up ad. Even the internet savvy can get caught out once in a while, or misclick a link, or click through a google res
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by jarcane 12y ago
Current versions of Java more or less default to allowing nothing to work anyway.
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by jarcane 12y ago
With self-publication more and more readily available, that barrier is getting thinner and thinner, and a lot more writers find themselves doing both like I did.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is why I loved Markdown when I first discovered it. Even without it, a lot of my plaintext files do things like the * for emphasis, or using dashes to underline headers and so forth. It's been done in software documentation for de
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by jarcane 12y ago
As someone who has laid out entire 2-300 page books in Word and LibreOffice both, what you say is a fine idea in theory, but rarely ever works out in actual application at all with the way those tools implement it. I think LyX/LaTeX pr
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by jarcane 12y ago
His comparison though, and the similarity to how WordPerfect managed things, is precisely why I switched to LyX as well. It's not perfect, but it's a huge step better at getting out of my way and just letting me tell the computer

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